A farm's reliance on farm labor varies by commodity specialization. On average, labor costs (including contract labor, hired labor, and worker benefits such as insurance) accounted for about 14 percent of the total farm cash expenses in 2020.
Farms specializing...
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Pork/Hogs: Third-quarter pork production is raised to 6.5 billion pounds, just fractionally below a year ago, on expectations that ample supplies of slaughter-ready hogs for the balance of the quarter will combine with higher year-over-year average dressed weights to...
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The National Pork Producers Council is encouraging farmers to highlight October 11th, the day the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the constitutional challenge of California's Proposition 12. California's Proposition...
Large-scale family farms were more likely to have stronger financial performance than other farms, according to USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) researchers using data from the 2011-20 Agricultural Resource Management surveys (ARMS).
ERS researchers categorized farms as low risk if...
Since day one, Farmland has worked with local farmers and their families in America's heartland to provide customers with food they can trust and feel good about. To invest in the future of the agricultural industry and show appreciation...
On August 25, the Missouri Pork Association (MPA) announced their endorsement of Attorney General Eric Schmitt for U.S. Senate. Schmitt has been a voice for rural Missouri and a leading state attorney general that ensures the values of agriculture...
Source: TLSN.com
Some in Sioux Falls are opposing a proposed hog processing plant that Wholestone Foods says it will build on the northeast edge of the city.
One member of the opposition group is raising a lot of eyebrows. POET is...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is contacting producers for the September Hog Report. The agency will survey pork producers for detailed information on market hog and breeding stock inventories, as well as pig...
Bailey, H., J. Campbell, and H. H. Stein. 2022. The combination of spray dried plasma and reduced crude protein in diets decreases circulating cytokines of weanling pigs. 15th International Symposium on Digestive Physiology of Pigs. Animal - Science Proceedings 13(Issue...
Source: Mitchell Republic
The latest expansion on the horizon for the Greenways operation is largely being driven by a new California state law called Proposition 12, which put a ban on buying any pork products from operations that breed pigs...